Snowflakes Thread: Defense Vs. Minnesota

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This will be the thread for your snowflakes and hot takes on the defense and defensive playcalling in the game against Minnesota.

alum96

October 31st, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^

A week of soul searching ahead.  Nice play at end but giving up 3rd and 17 on last drive and letting 92nd ranked offense put up 461 yds? 

Makes me scared of Indiana and Sudfeld.  Made Leidner look like Cook. 

LBs really played poor and Dymonte Thomas exposed.

MonkeyMan

October 31st, 2015 at 11:35 PM ^

I agree that this performance shouldn't be written off as a fluke. Opposing teams are starting to get a handle on our weaknesses. Indiana will be interesting- OSU makes me even more nervous. 

Hopefully, changes are made.

MichiganExile

October 31st, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^

Minnesota's game plan of lucky as hell long passes that should have been picked off but miraculously end up in the hands of the wide receivers was perfectly drawn up to beat Michigan's D. Gonna need to clean that up against other shitty teams. 

UMProud

October 31st, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^

Way too many penalties, D did not look normal tonight.  Secondary looked bad, defense got tired by third quarter (conditioning?) and we just had some weird fuckin perfect act of god kung fu used on us.  

Good points...some nicely executed well timed blitzes, some awesome individual effort and Peppers is amazing but worrisome he is playing so much (injury potential)

Danwillhor

October 31st, 2015 at 10:51 PM ^

team on a mission but that was ugly except for about 8 defensive plays lol. I was actually hoping they'd kick it, I can't lie. I couldn't take another last second loss. Defense nutted up when they needed a half yard on two plays to win, a mobile huge ass QB, a stickum hands WR and 3 backs that were running over our LBs. I wanted them to kick it. Glad they didn't.

MichiganExile

October 31st, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^

Leidner was 16/33 and and 3 of those should have been interceptions. Two of those were fluked into long completions. Another should have been interception (total of 4) was dropped by Peppers and would have been returned for a TD. Sometimes stats don't tell you everything about a game. He made some great throws but dude was not lights out no matter what the announcers tell you. 

Sten Carlson

October 31st, 2015 at 11:29 PM ^

This ^^^ !!!!

How many times did the commentators say Lewis had perfect position/coverage yet somehow Leidner (like Cook last game) drops a Tom Bradyesque dimes in there?!? DT and Pep both drop INT's -- Pep's was 6 no doubt. Good lord was that frustrating!

Gulogulo37

November 1st, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^

Not sure what announcers you're referring to. They mentioned a few times that Minnesota was getting lucky. Also, Leidner did legitimately hit some tight windows, mostly in the 2nd half.

I think the run defense was more alarming. Not sure what they were doing tactically, but they had a lot more success there than I thought they would.

MGoVictory

October 31st, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^

461 yards? Maybe the defense was still in a funk from the last game and the bye week, and some of those yards were "luck" yards, but still, 461 yards?

The defense came through on the final play and go the Jug back, though!

snowcrash

October 31st, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^

It looked to me like we just had a really, really, really off day as opposed to Minnesota being able to expose new weaknesses that no one else noticed.

But how did we end up with Morgan in single coverage on a RB downfield?

UMForLife

October 31st, 2015 at 11:00 PM ^

It seemed like we had enough opportunities to get turnovers. We just can't get those. If we had those, this would have looked like a different game. MN played well. They made good plays. I am more concerned about our pass rush than our secondary. It is hard to be a secondary when we can't catch the ball and no pass rush. It seems like we need a better DL play for our LBs and Secondary to be successful. Safety play wasn't that great either. Our LBs was the biggest problem. Couple of big plays happen, but our LBs were not that good and made it worse. Bad tackling.

I will not be surprised if they come out and dominate next week. D still had enough in it to make some big plays. Hated those busted plays though.

Ghost of Fritz…

October 31st, 2015 at 11:07 PM ^

it could be my maize colred glasses, but to me this officiating crew jsut was not going to call holding on Minn pass plays. 

It seemed like on a lot of Minn pass plays there was clear holding slowing down the pass rush. 

But that is just the way this crew was calling the game.  They also seemed reluctant to call PI.

uminks

October 31st, 2015 at 11:06 PM ^

gives up 461 yards  to one of the worse offenses in the B1G. Something went really wrong tonight and hopefully the coaches can correct this! One positive is that we have found a good backup in Wilton! I like his throws once he got his confidence!

mgobleu

October 31st, 2015 at 11:07 PM ^

Line didn't get much push, linebackers got keyed on Leidner's feet way too often and either got beat over the top or missed tackles and got beat by a freshman rb. DBs looked solid, but Minnesota pulled some throws and catches out of their asses, man. I hope they're just rusty after a week off; they did enough to win, but it felt like one of those Brady Hoke wins they kinda deserved to lose.

unWavering

October 31st, 2015 at 11:09 PM ^

Leidner played out of his mind. Disheartening, but not all that worried. He was hitting NFL throws left and right after looking like crap all year.

DL was getting good pressure. Good coverage most of the time. A LOT of lucky plays went Minnesota's way. They ran out of luck at the end.

AZBlue

October 31st, 2015 at 11:13 PM ^

Really seemed to be missing RJS tonight. Was there any mention of why he wasn't playing tonight? Ross is NOT a Buck LB in this system. Seemed like Minny went right at him (at least early).

charblue.

October 31st, 2015 at 11:26 PM ^

do it for their old coach. They were a different team than they've been all season and played wtih great focus and determination. Their effort was outstanding and Leidner was their leader and he threw the ball better than I've ever seen him. Think we should just credit the Minnesota effort.